NEMO Arms’ $95,904 Titanium .308 Winchester AR-10 (VIDEO)

NEMO Arms has manufactured a titanium AR-10 chambered in .308 Winchester. It’s a promotional rifle, an attention-grabber, and it runs almost $100,000. The [Ti]ONE showcases NEMO Arms’ production capabilities with a near-complete titanium build, one of the most difficult metals to work with.

In U.S. dollars, $95,904 gets you the [Ti]ONE serial number one. If you’re interested in getting a titanium battle rifle of your own but are on a budget, NEMO Arms will sell you one of the other [Ti]ONE rifles for $49,789. Those receivers must be hell on the tools.

[Ti]ONEs have titanium upper and lower receivers, titanium buffer tubes, titanium bolt carrier groups, titanium handguards, titanium charging handles, and titanium muzzle breaks. The parts that interact with ammo, the bolt, the firing pin and the barrel are steel. Steel, even stainless steel, is slightly more flexible than titanium and more suited to the stresses of the cycle of operation.

All said and done, [Ti]ONEs are 39 inches long with the stock extended, just under 36 collapsed and have an HBAR-profiled 16-inch carbine barrel. They weigh just over 8.5 pounds dry. NEMO says these guns are impractical, but to own one of these and not shoot it would be a crying shame.

Of course they make many other rifles that cost a good deal less than $50,000. Prices start at about $1,700 for their very-few-frills AR-15 rifle. It has a good amount of Magpul furniture but no sights or anything like that, although you can order them installed as an option. Another basic NEMO rifle would be their standard .308 battle rifle, same deal as the AR-15, running about $2,800 to start.

NEMO Arms also has one rifle, “The Omen” chambered in .300 Winchester Magnum, for those of you who want serious firepower from a semi-automatic rifle. All of NEMO’s rifles are available in standard and in match-grade models.

It's made almost entirely of titanium which is an extremely difficult metal to work with, but if I'm going to pay almost $100,000 for a gun it better be the gun that saved the world and was hand engraved by the world's best engraver.
It also better have diamonds and gold enlays everywhere.

What this shows is an incredible amount of technical manufacturing capability. Titanium is almost impossible to work with and to be able to produce a functioning AR out of this material demonstrates a level of skill and engineering finesse that few companies can match. Hats off the guys at NEMO for going where none have gone before. Only in America baby, what a great country.

Only one hundred thous , huh? NAW. What would it shoot? The bullets alone would too much to shoot one of them. Tell you what , you give me the money , and I'll get you a machinegun that will shoot through a tank.